Richard Hall (aka Peter)
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| Home: | Hedgeley Station |
| Date of death: | 28 December 1943 |
| Age at death: | 22 years |
| Fate: | Died at 72 General Hospital BNAF (Note 1) |
| Rank: | Driver |
| Service No: | 10577204 |
| Unit/Regiment: | Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
| Buried: | Bone War Cemetery, Annaba, Algeria (Cemetery/memorial reference: III. C. 17). Also commemorated on the Eglingham War Memorial, Northumberland UK. |
| Other: | Half-brother of Richard Mathew Hall and Thomas Hall: both of 2 Hedgeley Station and both of whom died in WWI. Richard Matthew Hall died on 1 June 1915. Consequently, as ‘Richard’ was thought by his family to be an ‘unlucky’ name, Richard was never known by this name but as ‘Peter’ (not a middle name). |
Driver Richard Hall (known as Peter)
(Image source: Photo submitted by Marian Hall 28 May 2018. Used with permission.)
Bone War Cemetery, Annaba, Algeria (Image courtesy of CWGC)
Notes
- Believed to have died of sepsis. Local family report (May 2018) that he stood on a thorn that eventually poisoned him.
